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Season 21969

Season 2

September 19, 1969
26
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1969
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26 episodes
Season 2
Lady On the Rocks

Lady On the Rocks

Sep 19, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.

6 guest stars
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A Hard Case of the Blues

A Hard Case of the Blues

Sep 26, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Barry Shear

Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) wants to know the reasons for her apathy.

10 guest stars
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Blind Man's Bluff

Blind Man's Bluff

Oct 3, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: James Neilson

An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's face was mutilated; now the former D.A. wants to trap the man responsible for his sightlessness.

7 guest stars
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The Emissary

The Emissary

Oct 10, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.

5 guest stars
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Chains of Command

Chains of Command

Oct 17, 19691h 13m0 votes
Director: Robert Day

Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.

10 guest stars
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Goodbye Harry

Goodbye Harry

Oct 24, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Barry Shear

Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.

10 guest stars
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Give Till It Hurts

Give Till It Hurts

Oct 31, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Marc Daniels

The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.

10 guest stars
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The Perfect Image

The Perfect Image

Nov 7, 19691h 13m0 votes
Director: Sutton Roley

Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell try to weed out the truth.

13 guest stars
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The Prisoner Within

The Prisoner Within

Nov 14, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Oscar Rudolph

Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.

9 guest stars
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The Civilized Men

The Civilized Men

Nov 28, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Don McDougall

Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be involved?

5 guest stars
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High Card

High Card

Dec 5, 19691h 14m0 votes
Director: Sutton Roley

A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.

4 guest stars
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The Power

The Power

Dec 12, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the longshoreman's union.

7 guest stars
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Laurie Marie

Laurie Marie

Dec 19, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Harvey Hart

When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This results in a stampede of mercenary characters who make a shambles of Coates' estate. Watching from the sidelines is reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) and his girl friday Peggy.

9 guest stars
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The Tradition

The Tradition

Jan 2, 19701h 15m0 votes
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.

4 guest stars
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The Brass Ring

The Brass Ring

Jan 9, 19701h 15m0 votes
Director: Barry Shear

A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager may be arranging a fixed bout.

7 guest stars
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Island of Gold and Precious Stones

Island of Gold and Precious Stones

Jan 16, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: John Newland

A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.

14 guest stars
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The Takeover

The Takeover

Jan 23, 19701h 15m0 votes
Director: Herbert Kenwith

As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame-up and sparks a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.

10 guest stars
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The Garden

The Garden

Jan 30, 19701h 30m0 votes

Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat called The Garden. Farrell is convinced that he is a phony, and tries to prove it

9 guest stars
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Tarot

Tarot

Feb 13, 19701h 30m0 votes
Director: Nicholas Colasanto

Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.

4 guest stars
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The King of Denmark

The King of Denmark

Feb 20, 19701h 30m0 votes
Director: Leo Penn

Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.

8 guest stars
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The Skin Game

The Skin Game

Feb 27, 19701h 30m0 votes
Director: William Conrad

Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.

6 guest stars
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Man of the People

Man of the People

Mar 6, 19701h 30m0 votes

Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican heritage to hornswoggle his own people.

1 guest star
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Echo of a Nightmare

Echo of a Nightmare

Mar 20, 19701h 30m0 votes
Director: John Newland

The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.

3 guest stars
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Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

Mar 27, 19701h 30m0 votes

When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.

6 guest stars
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One of the Girls in Research

One of the Girls in Research

Apr 3, 19701h 30m0 votes

Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.

1 guest star
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The Other Kind of Spy

The Other Kind of Spy

Apr 10, 19701h 30m0 votes
Director: Boris Sagal

Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.

3 guest stars
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